"Lane goes on to assert that "horror writer H. P. Lovecraft called [The Yellow Wallpaper] one of the great 'spectral tales' in American Literature," but her footnote for this quotation merely offers "thanks to Paul Buhl for providing this piece of information"

"Hedges's lengthy afterword aligned "The Yellow Wallpaper" with other "deliberate dramatic indictments, by women writers, of the crippling social pressures imposed on women" (Wallpaper 55), thereby positioning it in the feminist literary tradition then being charted..." (Lots of names 471)